Example sentences of "he be [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 2 | ‘ Boggers ’ takes us for science and he is , by common agreement , a bit of a wimp — at least he is on some days . |
| 3 | It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher . |
| 4 | He is in some trouble with the second . |
| 5 | At other moments , he is like some kind of Jewish magus , all too liberated . |
| 6 | He thinks he 's on some sort of blacklist because he was in the International Brigade . ’ |
| 7 | His name was Jack Barnes and he 's with some firm called Woodlands Incorporated . " |
| 8 | Do you reckon he 's with some young lady , enjoying an al fresco lunch ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Or more likely he 's at some hotel , waiting to search our luggage before we can proceed . ’ |
| 10 | Well , he 's at some de there 's some firms do or something on apparently |
| 11 | " He 's under some delusion that I 'm going to cheat him , " Matthew said . |
| 12 | He 's like some perfect uncle , authoritative and kind , but slightly removed . |
| 13 | How he walks up to me , he sort of looked at me yeah like , like he looked really went hello , give me a kiss then he 's like some old man |
| 14 | He 's in some kind of rooms in the north-east of London somewhere . " |
| 15 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |
| 16 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 17 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 18 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 19 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |
| 20 | He was with some other gipsies . |
| 21 | He was for some time a broken man . |
| 22 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 23 | Very widely read and a lover of drama and music , he was for some thirty years one of the most influential members of the famous Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 24 | Since what was , in fact , a remarkably brief reign as the seeming Generalmusikdirektor of Europe ( in the late 1950s Karajan held important posts simultaneously in Vienna , Berlin , Salzburg , Milan , and London ) , he was to some extent suspect in English-speaking countries , where there is a naturally healthy distrust of cultural super-heroes , of the idea of the conductor as Übermensch . |
| 25 | Of course , he was to some extent screened from the uncomfortable reality . |
| 26 | ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) |
| 27 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 28 | ‘ Give me one good reason , ’ he demanded , somehow his voice reaching her as gruff and as if he was under some powerful emotion too . |
| 29 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 30 | He was in some ways a sort of humanoid Winnie the Pooh ( the bear with very little brain ) without any of Pooh 's more lovable characteristics — although no one in their right mind would tell him so ! |